Comments on: A-Rod is the “face of baseball” among people who aren’t really baseball fanshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/09/12/a-rod-is-the-face-of-baseball-among-people-who-arent-really-baseball-fans/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:48:59 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: anxovieshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/09/12/a-rod-is-the-face-of-baseball-among-people-who-arent-really-baseball-fans/#comment-577285
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:41:11 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577285Baseball is very different than football because the fans tend to follow their own teams rather than the league in general. The NFL can present a weekly snapshot of the league through televising 3 or 4 national games over a weekend and by catering to regional fans by presenting additional games involving local teams. During that same period there will have been 70+ MLB games played and few fans have the time to watch them all, so people tend to watch only games played by their team and most likely only 2 or 3 of those. They may hear of Miggy or Harper or Trout but rarely see them unless they happen to follow those teams. That’s why it takes an extraordinary player and personality like Micky Mantle or Reggie Jackson, et. al, to attract national attention.
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:26:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577270I’m from California, we spell it “Dude-sh”
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:40:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577102Doosh
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:40:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577101Just commenting on what A-Roid and the gutless “let him play” Yankees have done to the sport.

F$#$ him.

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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:19:32 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577095How many ways can a person spell “douche” anyhow?
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:40:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577080So what? I’m sure if you ask most people who the face of cycling is that doesn’t really follow cycling and they’d say Lance Armstrong. He doesn’t even compete anymore for obvious reasons. That means nothing. They know his name for all the wrong reasons and associate him with baseball, but also cheating. I wouldn’t read too much into this.
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:05:46 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577058Nah, Patrick Kane.

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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:28:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577049Arod is the biggest deusch in baseball. He took a picture of himself kissing a mirror.
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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:28:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577048Arod is the biggest dusch in baseball. He took a picture of himself kissing a mirror.
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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:27:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577047This would explain a great many things.
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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:08:14 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-577045Well, MLB does have some marketing. This is the campaign that MLB’s been using all season. They have the right idea, I think.

The hardcore putting Rodriguez in his perspective…Another gimme… Hell, it is not that hard for the basketball hardcore to put Lebron in his proper perspective…

This continued attempt to label Rodriguez as “just a ballplayer” is really weak…

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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:57:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=495528#comment-576974This is true, I was talking to a kid from China at my university and he was surprised the yankees could lose with Arod.
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